The FBI is unstoppable: The latest three legislative attempts to stop the changes to Article 41 (Rule 41) regarding new federal rules on criminal procedure seem to have failed. From today, federations can hacking on your PC with much less hassle.
The new regulation was established by the Supreme Court of USA this past April and will allow the FBI and police to apply for a warrant to the nearest US judge that will allow them to hack wherever the computer is located. So the authorities will be able to hack any suspect using Tor, VPN, or otherwise software anonymization to hide his tracks.
Κανονικά και μέχρι και σήμερα, όταν οι πράκτορες επιθυμούσαν να παραβιάσουν τον υπολογιστή ενός υπόπτου, έπρεπε να ζητήσουν ένταλμα από ένα δικαστή που είχε στην περιοχή δικαιοδοσίας του την περιοχή που βρίσκεται το μηχάνημα. Αυτό όμως είναι πολύ δύσκολο με την σημερινή technology.
With the changes brought by Article 41, investigators can obtain a warrant from any judge and develop a malicious software to find out where the suspect is, which could be anywhere in America or around the world.
Also, the new 41 article will allow authorities to go to a single judge for a warrant, not all courts.
This extension of the law gives extra hacking powers without any discussion in Congress or a vote, just by an administrative change.
Shortly after the decision in April, Senators Ron Wyden and Rand Paul tried to stop the bill by presenting the Stopping Mass Hacking Act (SMH) Act, which he seized at Congress. Wyden made a last appeal to the Senate on Wednesday, but was rejected.
"The changes from Article 41 will take effect tomorrow (today, December 1st), without any hearing or signaling for review and evaluation of the changes," he said. "Although the proposed changes are not necessarily bad or good, they are serious, and since there are significant privacy concerns they require more careful consideration and discussion."
